Spielberg to Present Directors Guild Noms
January 17 -- HOLLYWOOD (Variety) — Steven Spielberg will announce the five nominees for the Directors Guild of America's top feature filmmaker of 2000 award at the guild's Los Angeles headquarters Monday.
The winner of the DGA award has gone on to win the Best Director Academy Award in all but four years since 1949: in 1968, when Anthony Harvey won the DGA honor for The Lion in Winter and Carol Reed received the Oscar for Oliver!; in 1972, when Francis Ford Coppola won the DGA award for The Godfather, while Bob Fosse garnered the Oscar for Cabaret; in 1985, when Spielberg got the DGA nod for The Color Purple but the Oscar went to Sydney Pollack for Out of Africa; and lastly, in 1995, when Ron Howard earned the DGA honor for Apollo 13 and Mel Gibson grabbed the Oscar for Braveheart.
Spielberg has won the DGA award a record three times — for Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, in addition to The Color Purple — and has been nominated an unmatched nine times with additional nods for Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Empire of the Sun, and Amistad.
After collecting DGA honors for Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List, Spielberg went on to win Best Director Oscars for both.
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